I am a child of the Seventies. My kindergarten class was the very first group of 5-year olds who entered kindergarten already having watched the first year of the new PBS show, Sesame Street. My kindergarten teacher had to rethink large portions of her curriculum because we all came to school that year already knowing [...]

I’ve been very anxious to begin playing with the new educational version of Voicethread, and I finally found a willing set of guinea pigs in our 2nd Grade Team. If all goes according to plan, we should begin recording student voices later this week. For $10, it has been relatively easy to set up an [...]

As I wrote in “I May Be Nuts, But…” a few months ago, I am now the advisor of a 1x/week blog club for 6th Graders. Although the first meeting attracted boys only, by the end of November we had 7 girls in the club as well. The kids were completely pumped about the opportunity [...]